CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: The US Army faces a significant burden in planning sustainment operations. Currently, logi
CHARLES RIVER ANALYTICS, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $99,947
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- 2013.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- MA
- Period
- 2013-09-18 → 2014-03-19
Description
The US Army faces a significant burden in planning sustainment operations. Currently, logistics planners must manually evaluate potential emplacement sites to determine their terrain suitability. Sites subject to rainfall-runoff responses such as ponding are ill-suited for emplacements, but evaluating the likelihood of such responses requires significant time and expertise. To reduce the time and to ease the difficulty of logistics site selection we propose a series of Terrain Impact Decision Extensions (TIDE) to the My Weather Impacts Decision Aid (MyWIDA). TIDE performs data-fusion over a variety of terrain and weather data sets, and can reason with uncertainty to evaluate the suitability of potential logistics sites against a series of expert rules for a variety of emplacement systems.